Girls Education in Emergencies Project
- A Advocacy Campaign/Project
I Inactive
Key Information
This project is focused on improving the learning outcomes for girls and women by increasing access to and use of data on girls’ education in crisis and humanitarian settings. We have mobilized and influenced a network of over 200 CSOs including UN agencies NGOs and grassroots Women Rights Organizations to drive for equitable and coordinated provision of education for girls and women based on data and evidence. Over 100 grassroots women's rights organizations and policy makers have been capacity built with data-driven advocacy skills and formed two working groups in Nairobi and Turkana. Through the strengthened multi-sector partnerships, the working groups influence systemic changes in policies and create awareness in the community on data-driven approaches in addressing barriers to girls’ education.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 - 2022
Partner(s)
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
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Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
- Secondary Enrollment
Other skills
- Rights/empowerment education
Quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
Skills
- Civics education
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Gender equality
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Other cultural practices
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls in school, Other, Youth
Age
Not applicable or unknown
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
- Vocational
Other populations reached
- Community leaders
- Mothers
- Other community members - female
- Parent-teacher associations/school management committees
- Religious leaders
- School administrators
Participants include
- Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
- Indigenous
- Nomadic groups
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
- Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
- School management committees
- Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments
Health and childcare services
- Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
- Developing/promoting new laws/policies
- System-wide review and reform
School-related gender-based violence
- Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Social/gender norms change
- Media campaigns
- Work with community leaders
- Work with religious leaders
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Increased primary school completion
- Increased progression to secondary school
- Increased school completion (general)
- Increased school enrolment (general)
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced child marriage
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
- Teresa Otieno
- Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
- CEO of FAWE Kenya
- terry.otieno@fawe.or.ke